RBC: The Presidential Administration has been discussing the FSIN reform for more than a year

For more than a year, the Presidential Administration of the Presidential Administration has been discussing the possibility of reform of the Federal Penitentiary Service for two departments. This was reported by RBC with reference to an unnamed source in the FSIN.

Last summer, an interdepartmental working group was created, which includes officials of the state legal department of the AP, the Ministry of Justice, the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. FSINITSUS IN THE PHOTO group.

In closed mode, two FSIN reform options are prepared. The first implies the abolition of the service of the prison department and the reduction of the operational component of its work. The regular rates of operatives must be transferred to the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The special service will deal with the fight against the corruption of the jailers, and the police - the search for fugitives and other tasks that are now carried out by the FSINA operatives; For this, it is supposed to strengthen the division of the criminal investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Medical services of prisoners will be transferred to the Ministry of Health. In the competence of the FSIN itself, the economic part will remain, issues of compliance with the regime and stage.

The second option, named in the publication more radical, suggests that the protection of places of imprisonment and escort will be entrusted to the Russian Guard; The same structure will be conveyed by the FSINSK special forces. The current Law on the Russian Guard already implies its involvement in the depression of unrest in the colonies.

As noted, such a scheme resembles Soviet - in the USSR, places of imprisonment were guarded by the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, on the basis of which the current Rosguard was created.

Internal work in the colonies - operational, educational, etc. - according to the second option, the Ministry of Internal Affairs should be entrusted, where the Main Directorate of Penitentiary execution will be restored. According to the source of RBC, it is for this option that most members of the working group stands.

Meanwhile, another interlocutor of the newspaper indicated that the adoption of this scheme is hindered by Russia's obligations in the Council of Europe, according to which the penitentiary service was transferred from the structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the structure of the Ministry of Justice in the late 1990s. In this regard, he called the adoption of the first option more likely.

Both the first and second options are noted in the publication, suggest strengthening the control of the prison department by the FSB.

Meanwhile, another interlocutor of RBC - close to the leadership of the Russian Guard - expressed doubt about the possibility of redistributing powers of the FSIN between different departments. "The execution of punishments should be engaged in a single structure with the powers of operational -search activities," he remarked.

In the Center for Strategic Development, which was founded by the current chairman of the Accounts Chamber, Alexei Kudrin, the publication reported that back in October last year prepared their FSIN reform project. From the structure of the prison department, it was proposed to allocate law enforcement units that would be engaged in security, escorting and maintaining security. The rest of the FSIN functions according to this project were entrusted to civilian officials.

In recent days, the FSIN was in the center of the scandal after a video of the torture of the prisoner Evgeny Makarov in the IK-1 general regime in Yaroslavl was published in the media. In the case, which was engaged in the central apparatus of the Investigative Committee, was detained by the seven fsinists; Six of them were arrested .

At the same time, cases of torture of prisoners were opened in other regions, including the Bryansk and Kaliningrad regions.

Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service Gennady Kornienko instructed to form in the regional heads of the Commission’s department for consideration of complaints of prisoners of torture.

On Thursday, the Speaker of the Council of Council Valentina Matvienko announced the need to reform the FSIN reform to the Power and Civil Department.